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Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 3 (III), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that they were, but that it was like outdoor recreation, and water resources, and water resources research, and later beautification. It needed a White House focus if you were going to get it up above the threshold of national conscience. human. They all

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

leader; you know, really a terrific leader of the Senate [and] was getting things done there. In 1957--my recollection now after all these years--everyone thought that he was maneuvering for the Democratic nomination in 1960. I think perhaps I felt
Biographical information; 1960 “rump session;” Henry Cabot Lodge; campaign trips; Democratic ticket; Catholic issue; McCarthy censure; Watkins Committee; Vice Presidency; assassination; Connally-Yarborough feud; Dallas; funeral; Vietnam; press

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 4 (IV), 4/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

think, two hearings before the House Committee on Public Works. The interesting thing about that is that normally these committees don't attract the full membership. They attract maybe a handful of members, but in the case of the two or three hearings

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

from New York--Brooklyn, who is the chairman of the Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee that deals with State Department appropriations, and consequently has to do with this program. Rooney calls Fulbright "half-bright" just as [Joseph

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 21 (XXI), 1/7/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and] Space Act. He had been chairman of the committee [National Aeronautics and Space Council]. First of all, he had been chairman of the [Senate] Preparedness [Investigating] Subcommittee, which had taken a look into the whole space proposition when Sputnik
between LBJ and Robert Kennedy; Robert McNamara's efforts to use common weapons across all arms of the military; Chuck Stone's interest in the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity; LBJ's relationship with Bobby Baker; Reedy and LBJ

Oral history transcript, C.R. Smith, interview 2 (II), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of commerce? S: Yes, I think so. G: Did you? S: First time that he talked to me about the cabinet I was over in the Okay. White House. G: Do you know if he ever considered changing the site of the [Democratic National] Convention, moving it from
[For interviews 1 and 2] LBJ and the business community; businessmen’s committee for LBJ in the 1964 campaign; money-raising; the SST; appointment as Secretary of Commerce; purpose of Cabinet meetings; Department of Commerce; 3/31 announcement

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 4 (IV), 11/9/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to the fund-raising dinner in Washington. I can't recall, and your notes didn't help me on it, whether it was the [Democratic] National Committee or the congressional Democratic committee, but it was a fund raiser. Initially, of course, the President
; Larry O’Brien; Krim resigning as Democratic National Committee finance chairman to be involved with the LBJ Presidential Library and School of Public Affairs; being asked to join LBJ’s cabinet and the United Nations; Arthur Goldberg; the LBJ Foundation

Oral history transcript, Walter Washington and Bennetta Washington, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in the White House. B: Some White House staff member. W: Or it even could have been the [Democratic National] Committee. I just can't remember exactly, because Louis called on the other phone. I said, "You know, if this thing is getting warm, I'd better

Oral history transcript, Kenneth Torp, interview 1 (I), 6/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

businessi right. But, as you can imagine, on an island like Cyprus where our economic national interests aren't substantially engaged, the interest of the economic section of the embassy is strictly in the political impact of the local economics

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 3 (III), 7/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

problem because there were five governors and two or three mayors involved. And we had things like--at that time [Nelson] Rockefeller was governor of New York and [Robert] Wagner was the Democratic mayor of New York [City]. In Pennsylvania, [William

Oral history transcript, Timothy May, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

around October of 1961, and I worked for Kenny O'Donnell in the White House. From there I went up to the Hill and was counsel for a Senate investigating committee that Stuart Symington was chairman of. This was an investigation of the strategic

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

needed him. Were there any great blandishments to get Wayne Morse over to the Democratic column, or did they just let that develop naturally? R: Well, he raised money for Wayne Morse. First time, they do it all the time now, but he set up a committee
at start of LBJ presidency; LBJ and his advisors; LBJ’s method of operation; press comparison of LBJ and Nixon; 1964 campaign; LBJ and Mike Mansfield; Democratic National Committee; fund-raising committees; Lady Bird and Mrs. Rowe

Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. During the war, I commuted three or four days. to go down. family here. I didn't want I wouldn't go down to Washington, because I had a So we compromised on my commuting. I knew Aubrey Williams well, of the National Youth Administration. And Aubrey

Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

both of us had been nominated by President Kennedy before the assassination and gone through and been submitted to the Senate from the relevant committee, and our appointments were actually confirmed by the Senate, these two appointments, at 1 :00

Oral history transcript, Herbert Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

precautions? . . J: ·.Well, yes, to the extent that...there's a national political campaign . . on and one of the leadtng.candi'dates was coming here to make a speech.· It was very nfce that ne·:dfd it; from the back of the train; .all the· · security
.; Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee ; J. Edgar Hoover; LBJ’s visit to Atlanta during presidency; Atlanta riots, 1966-1967; National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, final report of the Commission and LBJ’s response; Martin Luther King’s

Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

the following year, in the spring of 1942, I became the Assistant Director. This was an interesting episode. Bv the. spring of 1943. a vear late.r, the problems relating to civilian personnel had captured some national attention. By that time, the Department

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 4 (IV), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

did, and I guess it's true, to a point. To what point? Well, to the point where we never were able to get enough money to make the Job Corps big enough to really profoundly change American society. Today, for example, Republicans and Democrats
; examples of educational, social and health-related skills that were taught in Job Corps; placement for Job Corps graduates; how Shriver developed the idea for Head Start; the Head Start advisory committee; how Lady Bird Johnson became involved in supporting

Oral history transcript, Donald A. Williams, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. The National Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts very frequently, in fact, almost always testifies before congressional committees on legislative or appropriation matters of interest or concern to them. Not only does the Soil Conservation

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 52 (LII), 8/15/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, without improperly invading state and local authority, will enable us effectively to deal with strikes which threaten irreparable damage to the national interest." Something as I recall, nobody really wanted him to stick in. LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, James Sundquist, interview 1 (I), 4/7/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh SUNDQUIST -- I -- 2 From 1953 to 1954, you were the assistant to the chairman of the Democratic National Committee. From 1955 to 1956 you were

Oral history transcript, Luther H. Hodges, Sr., interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

waiting, waiting, and therefore things begin to deaden off. That happened in the Democratic National Committee. It went to pieces because of Mr. Johnson; they kept waiting for him, and he was running things by himself, according to his critics. And I

Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Youth Corps, it actually passed the Senate and got through the House Committee a couple of times. S-l, I think, was the designation. The Vista program, obviously, was a modification of the National Service Corps Program, and some of the other things

Oral history transcript, C.W. Price, interview 1 (I), 1/12/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

them in or--there was a telegraph office right across the street--one or the other, and turned those deals in to the Texas Election Bureau. Then next week when the [County] Democratic [Executive] Committee met to canvass the returns, it was 765 to 60

Oral history transcript, Carl Sanders, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, possibly came through here one time, but not any real campaign. B: During the Kennedy years you became governor of Georgia, ran in 1962 and took office in 1963. Did you get any help from the national party in campaigning? S: None at all. You mean

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 6 (VI), 2/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. He was involved as a young guy with the formation of the United Nations. He did travel extensively. He did go to the London School of Economics. He was an above average, but not beyond that, student. 9 LBJ Presidential Library http
of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; the Manpower Training and Development Act; the difference between standing and teller votes; the proposal of a domestic national service corps; a student loan program for medical education; how to get education

Oral history transcript, Robert J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a meat distribution cold storage room there on the corner where now is the back end of the First National Bank, right across from where Sanger-Harris store is. But also I remember very well that in the Mississippi River at Memphis during the day that I
National Youth Administration (U.S.)
Biographical information; contact with LBJ; NRA; LBJ as state director; National Youth Administration; Harry Drought; John Nance Garner; NYA-WPA relationship; roadside parks; 1948 helicopter campaign; LBJ as a Congressman; competition between

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)

/loh/oh Jones -- I -- 5 when he was a young congressman in 1940, he was head of the House Democratic Campaign Committee. And after the 1940 elections in which President Roosevelt was reelected and the Democratic Congress was maintained, Drew Pearson
LBJ’s decision not to run for re-election in 1968; Martin Luther King’s death and LBJ’s view of King; LBJ on civil rights; open housing bill; trip to Chicago 4/1/68; the idea of moving the Democratic National Convention from Chicago; Chicago’s Mayor

Oral history transcript, Tom and Betty Weinheimer, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

my first memory is his campaigning in the area, and we would always go, and Tom was helping hold elections here, and we were pretty active Democrats, which wasn't an easy thing to be in this county. (Laughter) G: This is Gillespie County. BW: Yes
for the LBJ National Historic Park; LBJ as a neighbor; LBJ’s impulsiveness and joking nature; LBJ’s views on Vietnam; the Weinheimers being at the Ranch with LBJ during the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago; LBJ’s perfectionism; LBJ’s health after

Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

area of interest was such that there was no reason for me to have any contact with then-Senator Johnson. I testi- fied before a subcommittee of the Senate Preparedness Investigating Committee on a couple of occasions on airlift, but that subcommittee

Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

contribution was to have a baby right in the middle of the convention that was named Lyndon--not right in the middle, but about ten days beforehand, so I really didn't. After that I took a part-time job down at the Democratic National Committee. B: You worked

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 15 (XV), 12/15/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the Joint Economic Committee. I mean all of that was--it didn't take much to inspire anger on the Hill because both houses were in Democratic control and both houses did not like the Fed, or Martin's Fed. But there is some point very soon and maybe

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

demagogic resolution, and Joe wanted it passed right away without reference to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, without even sending it to committee. I can still recall a little strategy meeting in which Wayne Morse said, "Well, my God, I'll take

Oral history transcript, A. Phillip Randolph, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Wilkins [of the NAACP]; Mr. Whitney Young, Jr., National Director of the National Urban League; Walter Reuther, President of the UAW;-- B: Would Dr. King have been there? R: Dr. [Martin Luther] King, Jr., was there, and a number of others--I don't

Oral history transcript, James L. Noel, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

a straight support Roosevelt candidate. That's the way he got elected to the Congress in 1936 or 1937 or 1938, whenever it was along in there. Governor O'Daniel was never a pro-Roosevelt man or really a Democrat, identified as such. 4 LBJ Presidential

Oral history transcript, Polk Shelton and Nell Shelton, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

Democratic committees of those counties. Now I went down to represent them, both in Duval and Zapata Counties, assisted Judge Raymond in representing them. PB: Judge Raymond was a district judge. PS: He was the county judge of Laredo at that time. PB

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 50 (L), 7/19/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, as a moral issue. I think he knew, if not exactly, he had a good sense of what it would do to the Democratic Party over time. But he thought these rights were more important than the Democratic Party basically. Crudely put. He never said that, but I always

Oral history transcript, Robert C. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

with the Secretary? W: Well, it was an interesting story. That was the time when the NRA Codes hearings were being conducted, and a classmate of mine, who had finished law school, and I established the National Committee on Industrial Recovery. We got the various
National Youth Administration (U.S.)
Biographical information; Adviser to Secretary Ickes on Negro affairs; National Committee on Industrial Recovery; Harvard thesis research; integration of cafeteria services at Department of the Interior; “The Black Cabinet;” duties at Department

Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

to the Democratic state meeting in Albuquerque, and at the time John Kennedy was probably my personal choice. But anyhow the publisher of the New Mexican was a friend of Lyndon Johnson's and I went to Albuquerque myself. As I recall, I was editor by that LBJ

Oral history transcript, James J. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 7/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

general. As a matter of fact, we were both of the same rank [lieutenant colonel--JJH] at that time. And Danny Graham at this time in 1962, I think a couple of months after I went to the Office of Current Intelligence, he went to the Office of National
crisis on Soviet politics; Hagerty’s work in the Office of National Estimates; George Carver and Bill Hyland’s involvement in Vietnam task force; Chinese obstruction of Soviet military support to North Vietnam; the Soviet and Chinese positions toward

Oral history transcript, John P. Roche, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

was in that office; Sam Beer had it from 1960 to 1962--on official ADA stationery wrote every delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1960 a little letter which suggested that Lyndon Johnson, not by name as I recall, was a racist. It was a little private

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